Everything That Remains: A Memoir by The Minimalists

by Joshua Fields Millburn

There is one, and only one, accurate relationship status: It’s Complicated.

Progress requires practice and dedication and, to a certain extent, a healthy obsession. Hence, passion is a mixture of love and obsession.

passion isn’t followed, it’s cultivated.

The more action you take, the more you want to take action.

most organizing is nothing more than well-planned hoarding.

‘It’s only after we’ve lost everything that we’re free to do anything.’

“You can't change the people around you, but you can change the people around you.”

I still had the fantasy in the back of my mind, but I never had the wherewithal or the discipline or nothing to carry it through.

Yes, I want to “be happy” and “live in the moment” and “live a healthy life,” but these are choices, not goals.

Life is too short to do shit you dislike.

“Here’s the thing about balance: it creates separation between work and the rest of your life. But work isn’t separate from life, it’s part of it. So rather than trying to measure and weigh and compare parts of your life that defy comparison, why not ask yourself whether you’re feeling the harmony in how it all adds up.

This is a time of great uncertainty, but uncertain times are when new normals are born.